Jimmy Carter is a small, mean, hateful, man.

He was a submarine officer in the non-nuclear Navy.

Back then, the Director of Naval Reactors, Hyman Rickover, saw the nuclear community as his personal fiefdom. He personally interviewed every officer that wanted to serve on nuclear ships.

And he was a right bastard. He would regularly throw candidates out of his office. After making them sit in the outer office for a few hours, he'd invite them back in and continue the interview. This was to see if they would get rattled under pressure.

When James Earl Carter applied to move from diesel boats to nuc boats, he got the same treatment.

Except when he got thrown out, he left and never came back.

When he became president he fired Rickover and murdered the civilian nuclear program.